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WOMEN’S SOCIETY

President, Mrs. Benjamin Watkins

Sec-Treas., Mrs. William a. Davis

SUNDAY SCHOOL

Superintendent, Max Chilson

Treasurer, Mrs. Leigh Bowers

Secretary, Miss Jeanette Chilson

In February, 1844, the following persons, members of the First Presbyterian
Church of Elkland, Pennsylvania, united in a petition to the Presbytery
of Chemung for the formation of a church at Beecher’s Island in the town
at present known as Nelson, to be called "The Presbyterian Church of Beecher’s
Island," – Joel Jewell, and Mary his wife; James Campbell, and Mary his
wife; Joseph Campbell, and Ann his wife; John Hazelett; Charles Blanchard
and Lovina his wife; Sally Campbell, Edward Mapes, Harris T. Ryon, Sarah
Campbell, Mary Ann C**************** Blanchard, Esther Blanchard, Samuel
Hazelett******* Blackwell; Robert Casbeer; Charles Lugg and his wife, Ann.

Presbytery having resolved to grant the request, appointed the Rev.
S. J. McCullough to organize the church. This was done on Saturday, March
2, 1844, with the above named persons all from the church of Elkland, and
with one more, Mahala Hazelett, wife of John, from the church at Lawrenceville,
PA., there being a total charter membership of 22.

Joel Jewell, Joseph Campbell, James Campbell were elected elders, having
held the same office in the Elkland church. Mr. John Hazelett, who had
exercised the office of deacon in the Elkland church, was elected to the
same office in this church. Elizabeth Ryon, wife of H. T., was received
by letter from the Presbyterian Church of Millville, N.Y. on June 3rd.
Charles N. Shumway and his wife, Margaret A., were admitted by letter from
Addison, N.Y. on Oct. 26th, when the church elected Harris T.
Ryon to the office of ruling elder, and Charles Blanchard as deacon. The
sacrament was administered during the year by the Rev. E. Everett and the
Rev. Egbert Roosa.

On Saturday, Feb. 1, 1845, the session met after the preparatory lecture
given by Rev. S. J. McCullough, (pastor at Lawrenceville) and examined
and received the following into membership upon profession of faith: Jane
Blanchard, Rebecca Ann Blanchard, John Hazelett, Jr. , William Campbell,
Sarah L. Phelps, **********Blanchard, Sylvester Bullock, Wm. L. Guer***********
Smith, Maria Hazelett, Elizabeth Hazelett, Joseph R. Jewell, David A. Jewell,
Elizabeth Campbell, Phebe Campbell, George Loop, Wealthy Loop, John Richardson,
Mrs. Junia Jones, Charles Bottom, David Beebe, Geo. J. Baseter, Emily Jane
Blanchard, Orpha Prston Gibson, Sally M. Shumway, Charlotte P. Baseter,
Susan Baseter, George W. Phelps, Catherine Tupper, Mrs. Mary Flint, Mary
Jane Cook, Benjamin D. Congdon. The last sixteen of those were baptized
and all received into the communion of the church on the next day, Sunday.
In addition, Daniel Shumway and Betsey, his wife, were received by letter
from the Presbyterian Church of Addison, N.Y.; and Emily, wife of Artemas
Locey, from the Presbyterian Church at Elkland.

In view of the initiative and faith necessary upon the part of the charter
members of the church to organize and maintain this church, a family history
of each one is given, as far as the facts are available.

JOEL JEWELL was the son of Deacon Joseph and Bithiah (Tylyer) Jewell
and was born Feb. 11, 1803 in Durham, Greene County, N.Y. At the age of
ten he attended a camp meeting at High Peak two miles directly south of
his home at castle Creek, and hear delightfully Joathon Ingalls loading
the singing, including the song, "Come ye sinners, poor and needy," sung
to the tune, "Celestial Watering". He moved with his family when eleven
years old to Hector, N. Y, engaged in Sunday School work at sixteen, was
teaching music at 17, and was a carpenter at 18. he became a church member
in 1826, became active in temperance society work, organizing 252 young
people into a total abstinence society in 1829. he married Miss Mary Adriance,
Feb. 6, 1827. He became an elder in the Presbyterian Church in 1837, and
was licensed to preach in 1843 by the Presbytery of Chemung. In 1895 he
published a little booklet, giving a photograph and family sketch, with
a sermon preached at the age of 80, another at the age of 90, and an historical
sketch of American church music. He had a son, William Henry, baptized
may 10, 1846. Other persons by the name of Jewell, Joseph Hiram and David
Albert, were admitted members of the church on confession of faith, Feb.
3, 1845, and were dismissed by letter in February 1847. They were the two
oldest of the seven children of Joel and Mary Adriance Jewell.

According to "The Jewell Register", published in 1860, a copy
of which is in the possession of Miss Emma Jewell Bassett, Maryville, Tennessee,
the children of Joel Jewell were: Joseph Hiram, born Dec. 7, 1827; resided
at Troy PA, married June 19, 1853 Huldah J. Brewer; had a child Mary Frances
born April 30, 1856.

David Albert, born March 7, 1829; married April 9, 1851, Nancy A. Keeney;
resided at Ionia, Michigan.

William Henry, born Jan. 9, 1846. baptized May 10 at Beecher’s Island.

Joel Jewell’s wife, Mary Adriance, was the daughter of Theodore Adriance,
a Revolutionary War soldier, who was one of the guards at Major John Andre,
the British spy’s execution. Major Andre was taken on his way from an interview
with traitor, General Benedict Arnold.

Mr. Jewell preached the fiftieth anniversary sermon at the Jubilee of
the Church, March 2, 1894. Excerpts are herewith given:

"Hitherto hath the Lord helped us," ( I Samuel 7: 12) "Brethren and
friends; this is the language of the Prophet Samuel, after Israel had obtained
a triumphant victory over the Philistines, in answer to his earnest prayer
for help. It was about 780 years after the call of Abraham, the father
of all the faithful, and 350 years after the covenant at Mt. Sinai. On
this occasion, Samuel offered a lamb for a burnt offering wholly unto Jehovah,
and cried unto the Lord for Israel, and Jehovah heard him. And as the Philistines
drew near o battle against Israel, the Lord thundered upon them and discomfited
them, and they were smitten and destroyed before Israel. ‘Then Samuel took
a stone and set it between Mizpeh and Shon, and called it Ebenezer (that
is, stone of help), saying, Hitherto hath the Lord helped us’.

"As God helped his faithful people from the days of Abraham to Samuel,
so has he always been ready, willing, and able to helpfuthem for three
thousand years, since the time of the excellent judge.

"Since the organization of this church, notwithstanding our unfaithfulness
and severe trials, we stand today and declare, "Hitherto hath the Lord
helped us". As the Jews blew the jubilee trumpet every fiftieth year on
the day of atonement, so we meet to raise our Ebenezer today at Nelson;
and may the Almighty proclaim by his spirit, liberty from the bondage of
sin to every person in this congregation, and through the entire community.

"The History of the Church in the Cowanesque Valley is involved in some
mystery, for the township of Elkland included Osceola and Nelson; besides,
early records are lost and the first settlers have departed to the Better
Country. This place was called Beecher’s Island until it was taken from
Elkland, and named Nelson, in 1857. The pioneers were a vigorous class,
designed to plant all good moral institutions in the wilderness. The first
grist mill in the county of Tioga was built here in 1805. The first school
within our bounds was taught by Harriet Wright, consisting of about ten
pupils, in 1822. Chester Giddings taught in this village in 1830; but there
was no schoolhouse built until 1834. The Presbyterian Church was organized
in Elkland, date uncertain. A precious revival of religion was enjoyed
in 1834 and 1835, and house of worship erected in 1837 and 1838. All in
this community so inclined united there, and enjoyed the preaching of the
gospel here at the schoolhouse. Joel Jewell and family came from New York
to Farmington and settled five miles from the island, and five miles from
Elkland, where he united, and was chosen the fiftheruling older, there
being two at Osceola and two at the Island. As Elkland had a flourishing
Sabbath School under the care of Dr. Benedict, Mr. Jewell went to the Island
and established one at nine o’clock in the morning, with a prayer-meeting
to follow when we had no preaching. The first Sunday School picnic in this
part of the State was held by him in 1838. This year the Southern portion
of the Presbyterian church, having an accidental majority in the General
Assembly, cut off or excinded four Northern Synods to get rid of Abolitionism.
Mr. Jewell and the people here were attached to the Presbytery of Chemung
and the Synod of Geneva; while the brethren at Elkland naturally inclined
toward the Susquehanna. We have not a complete list of the pastors of the
mother church; but recall as ministering there: Johnson, Fitch, Wells,
Harower, Porter, and Williams; and since the division, E. Bronson in ’45-’48,
B. F. Platt ’50, H. E. Woodcock in ’51, Lockwood in ’52-’55, Smith, Lane,
J. Campbell, T. F. Dewing, E. Cennda, E. B. Bennedict, J. Cairns. Since
the reunion, S. J. Moon, D. D., has been pastor for fourteen years.

"Jewell, the elder, continued his Sunday School and prayer meeting at
the Island from 1838 to 1843; at the same time clearing land, building
in Farmington and pursuing his studies under the direction of Rev. S. J.
McCullough of Tioga. Sept. 6, 1843, he was examined and licensed to preach
the gospel by the Presbytery of Chemung, at Athens. Because he had so much
business at home for the first year, his salary amounted to $64.50, all
paid in according to contract.

"At our request, the Church at Elkland very kindly dismissed twenty
one of us by letter, and on application to the Presbytery at Chemung, S.
J. McCullough was appointed to assist me in organizing the church of Nelson,
March 2, 1844. There were two of the original members whose lives were
so pleasant and uniform, that we mention the manner of their coming in,
Samuel Hazlett, -- I saw the young man one morning hitching up his oxen
and said, "Sammie, they seem to come kindly under the yoke’. He answered,
"Yes sir, they do’. ‘Well do you know the Lord says to you, Take my yoke
upon you, and learn of Me?’ Said he, ‘I suppose he does, ‘I then asked
him if he would watch through the day while plowing, whether he was willing
to obey as the oxen. He agreed to do so; and before night agreed to obey
the Lord to the best of his ability. As to Charles Blanchard;-- In June,
1843 we got Rev. O. Fitch to hold with us some afternoon meetings at the
house of James Campbell. Mr. Blanchard came with his wife the first day
and the second, the third he was absent, because we were getting rather
personal. Therefore, I walked down to his house; and when he saw me through
the window he put out of the cast door for his cornfield. I followed, found
a hoe, and was ready to strike in by his side; he tried hoeing fast, and
I kept even and talking; if he hoed moderately, I did the same. Finally
he threw down the hoe saying ‘Let us go up to the house.’ And as I could
not persuade him to take another bout, I accompanied him, finished my talking
and prayer, and then walked home seven miles. That night Mr. Blanchard
was uneasy, until Mrs. Blanchard said, ‘Charles, what is the matter"’ He
replied, ‘Lovina, you must get up and pray for me, I can’t live so.’ Thus
in mutual prayers he found peace.

"January, 1845, Mr. Jewell gave notice of a series of evening meetings
in Alvin Fry’s school room, commencing with a fast on Tuesday, the 14th,
and a general visitation of the inhabitants, by the church, going two and
two. The people fasted that day, without serving tables, in the most solemn
manner any of us had previously witnessed; and truly the Lord heard our
cries, and blessed us remarkably with the baptism of the Holy Spirit. Rev.
E. Sherwood, a young licontiate, was with us, and assisted with the meetings.
As a result, Re, S. J. McCullough assisting, we received on Lord’s Day,
Feb. second, 32 on profession of faith. . . .

"In 1845 this sanctuary was built by a willing people and generous.
The timber for the frame was hown one day, as a free-will offering, where
the parsonage now stands; Mr. Jewell and John Hazelett, Jr. cutting the
first tree. Then a subscription was raised, and Mr. Jewell got his younger
brother, Calvin, to take the job, by agreeing to work for him four or five
days in each week. The church was dedicated to the worship of God, and
Mr. Jewell ordained Dec. 17,1845, rev. John F. Calkins of Wellsborough
preaching from Ezekial 22:30.

"On account of severe bronchial difficulty, Mr. Jewell was obliged to
close his three years preaching here August 30, 1846, with a membership
of 57".

HARRIS T. RYON was the son of Judge John Ryon and his wife Susanna Tubbs.
John Ryon was born on his ship enroute to America in 1748. Harris T. Ryon’s
first wife was Maria Congdon, by whom he had two daughters, Maria Elzada,
born in 1837, and Sarah, born in 1842, when her mother died, burial being
made at the old Rathbone cemetery now owned by John Lockwood about two
miles west of Nelson. Sarah married Captain Romanzo C. Bailey of the Union
Army. They had a son, Fred Baily, M.D., who practiced in Fargo, North Dakota.
A daughter, Mrs. Samuel Dale, lives at 118 West Henry Street, Elmira.

HarrisT.Ryon married, second, Miss Elizabeth
Sherwood who became a member by letter from a church at Millville, Orleans
County, New York. Her brother, Rev. Elijah Sherwood, was active in establishing
the church in the Middle West, Sherwood Hall at Park College, Missouri
being named for him.

Mr. Harry Ryon living on a farm about two miles west of Nelson on the
concrete highway (no. 49) is a grandson of Harris T. Ryon. Mrs. Emma Ryon
Smith, postmaster at Elkland, is a granddaughter. Samuel Ryon, a brother
of Harris T., was a great-grandfather of Mrs. Lewis Darling of Lawrenceville.

Both Harry Ryon and Mrs. Emma Smith are the children of John S. Ryon
and his wife, Maria E. Hollis. John S. Ryon and his wife, Maria E. Hollis.
John S. Ryon and a sister, Emma A. Ryon, who married James D. James of
Elmira, had three children: Elizabeth (Mrs. Edward Metzer of New York,
a great-grandmother); Grace, who married Dr. John E. Bacon of Wellsboro,
died in Arizona; and John James, who lives near Los Angeles, California.

JAMESCAMPBELL was the 8th of the children
of Joseph and Mary Harper Campbell. James was born July 11, 1798 in Ireland,
married in 1822 a daughter of Enoch Blackwell, Mary Blackwell, who died
in 1863 at Nelson. They had twelve children: Sarah, Robert, Mary, Harriet,
Joseph, Emily, Enoch, Joseph, Martha, Anna (who died in infancy), John
and Anna.

Sarah (Sallie), born Sept. 15, 1825, was one of the charter member, died
in 1849 of tuberculosis, survived by her husband, George H. Baxter, son
of Ira and Betsy (Manly) Baxter. George H. Baxter became a church member
Feb. 1, 1845; Married second, Miss Clarissa Manly, and had five children:
Leonard, Zitella (married Truman Savey of Nelson), Eva Elizabeth (wife
first, of Reed M. Foster, second, of J. Edward Hazlett), Susan Maria (Mrs.
M. F. Cass), and Calvin Scott Baxter, physician at Nelson, father of Mrs.
Paul Jones Davis of Mansfield and Nelson, and Clara, Mrs. Leland smith
of Troy, N.Y.

Robert Campbell, born Sept. 30, 1827, married Elizabeth Sullen (Aunt Lib),
had three children:

Charles B., Ida, and Sue. Charles B. Campbell married Eunice Howland
and had three children. Ida married James Eaton, had children: Charles,
Augustus, Emma, who married James Pray; and Clara Eaton. Clara married
William Merritt, whose daughter Elma married Donald Avery and has two children:
Patricia (8), and Marlene, (2), living at Nelson. Other daughters of William
and Clara Merritt are Mrs. Ida Weeks and Mrs. Jack Brown. Sue Campbell
married Thomas Baldwin, had a daughter Henrietta Baldwin who lives at Sunbury,
Pa.

Mary (1830-1866) married Benjamin Parks, had children: Martha (Mrs. Spencer
Pratt), Frank Parks, who married Thomas Campbell, second cousin, had two
children: Ruth and May; and James Parks, who married Emma Kilbourn, had
one son.

Harriet Campbell joined the church in December, 1853, married first Robert
Parks, by whom she had a daughter Helen, who married Erastus Knapp, had
a son William who married Carrie Shipman. Harriet married second, David
Cook Kemp, a soldier of the 207th regiment, Penna. Volunteers.
She took her church papers to Farmington in 1860. Children of David and
Harriet (Campbell) Parks Kemp: Lettie, William, Sarah, Harry C., Bert,
and John.

Lettie married William Allen, had children: Jesse D. Allen; Gertrude
Allen, who married Fred Farley, a college dean in Oakland, California,
had three sons; David, Kemp, and Irwin Farley; and Marie, who makes her
home with Farleys.

WilliamKemp died unmarried at age 23.

SarahKemp married Edward Johnson, Lived in Knoxville,
Pa., had three children, Harold, Robert and Walter Johnson. Harold married
Lula Sherwood, has two children, Betty and William, the latter in the Navy.
Walter married Ruth Kilbourn, have an adopted son, Donald. Robert lives
at Savona, N.Y. Harold and Walter operate a farm together at Brookfield,
Pa.

HarryC.Kemp married first, Mattie Miller, a school
teacher, and daughter of a Methodist minister, Rev. John Wesley Miller.
After her death he married Mrs. Sarah (Brimmer) Brant, resides in Lawrenceville,
is a Presbyterian elder. Children by his first wife, born in Farmington
township: Rosco, Curtis Alvord, and Mary Kemp. Rosco married Crena Chilson,
lives in Farmington, has four children: Dorothy of Canton, Pa. Laurenza,
a school teacher, who married Carlton Davis of the U.S. Army, has twins:
Barry and Terry Davis born June 22, 1943; David and Robert M. both of whom
are in the U.S. Army. Curtis Alvord Kemp married May Learn, has children:
Caroline, Mattie, John Wesley, and Claude Harry, lives near Addison, N.Y.
Mary Kemp married Emerson Rice, lives near Norfolk (Ocean Park, Lynn Haven,
Va.), has two children: Lewis Emerson and Lenore Rice.

BertKemp married Miss Kitty White, lives at Ransomville,
N.Y., has a daughter, Helen, wife of William Arns.

JohnA.Kemp married May Hughes, lives in Farmington,
has six children: Maynard, Leona, Donald, Paul, Elnora, and Theodore. Maynard
Kemp married Ruth Learn, has one child, Timothy, lives at Nelson. Leona
married Max Chilson, Brother of Mrs. Rosco Kemp, lives at Nelson, has four
children. Paula, Jeanette, Wynn, born Feb. 8, 1934, and Kay Chilson. Max
is an elder in the Presbyterian Church, and the family faithfully attends
all services. Donald Kemp married Verna Wilbur, lives at Elmira, has a
child, Donald. Paul married Rosalind Cummings, lives with his father on
the farm in Farmington. Elnora is married to a Mr. Vogt, lives in New York
City, has a daughter. Theodore, in the Navy, is married and lives in San
Francisco, California.

Joseph Campbell, born in 1835, died in childhood.

Emily Campbell, daughter of James, was born Mar. 16, 1837, married Vernon
Green, Mar. 20.1857, had a son Edward, lived in Seattle Wash.

Enoch Campbell, born Dec. 18, 1839, married Oct. 11, 1865, Martha Hewey,
both of whom joined the church Oct. 4, 1868. They had two daughters, Mamie
and Maud. Mamie married Frank Solf, lives in Elkland. Maud married Arthur
Miner, had a son Douglas Miner, who married Laird, and has three children:
Laird, Ann and Joe.

Joseph Campbell, born June 16, 1843, married Jennie __________ and
had a son, Harry, and daughter, Nina who married William Kanuttel of Saginaw,
Michigan.

John C. Campbell, born Mar. 22, 1850, baptized Feb. 2, 1851, married Harriet
E. Clark, had children: Rose, Rena, Clyde and Mildred. Rose married Arthur
E. Jones (deceased); Rena and Mildred teach school and live with their
sister Rose Jones in Elkland. Clyde married Villa Ordway, had two sons,
James and John Campbell, died in Elkland in 1942. His mother Harriet Clark
Campbell, died Feb. 19, 1924. His son, John, married Dorothy McKenna. His
son, James, married Betty Elliott, and has a child, Sandra.

Anna Campbell, born Oct. 25, 1856, married George Ensell, had children:
Ruth, and Anna

Ensell. Ruth married Arthur Miner, had a son George Miner. After death
of Ruth, Arthur Miner married her sister Anna, by whom a son was born,
John Miner. They live at Buffalo, N.Y.
(4)Eleanor Campbell, born Apr. 17, 1828, married Malakin Bosard, had
three children: John
Mahlon, Laura, and Anna Bosard. John Mahlon married Jennie Crane
in 1872, had three daughters: Mary Evelyn, Eleanor C. (died 1914 Elmira),
and Florence Hortense Bosard. Laura married Charles W. Mowrey of
Farmington, had a daughter Elma R. Mowrey who died in 1905. Anna,
born Apr. 4, 1860, married in 1883 to Andrew Owlett of Chatham, PA., had
nine children: Fordyce Deroy, Dollie Faye, Jessie Luella, John Bosard,
Charles Ellsworth, Carleton Andrew, Burton Wesley, and Thomas Mac Owlett.

Elizabeth Campbell, born in 1830, married Daniel Hughey, had two sons,
Thomas (died in infancy) and Herbert Clinch Hughey. HerbertClinch
Hughey born 1857, married Hannah Jennie Bixby of Brainard, Minn, m had
four children, all born in Brainard: Carie May, Judson Edgar, Harry Milton,
Mary Estella Hughey.

Phoebe Campbell, born Feb. 12, 1832, married William Hoyt, had two children:
Joseph DeForrest and Inez Hoyt. Joseph De Forrest, born in 1860
in Farmington, married Frances Goodrich of Nelson, had three daughters:
Jessica, Elizabeth, and Isabelle Hoyt, all born in Nelson. Inez
Hoyt married William Boller of Wyoming, N. Y. who lives in Nelson. Their
two children died very young.

Jane Campbell, married April 10, 1852, George Tubbs. Both died in 1916.
Children: Frank, Ann, and Minnie Orcella Tubbs. Frank married Kate Ouderkirk
of Farmington, had seven children: Nettie, Omer, Leah, Diantha Rennie,
George, and Frank Tubbs, all born in Osceola. Ann married Oscer
A. VanDusen of Farmington, had four children: Emma, Harry, Burr, and Ross
Van Dusen, all born in Farmington.
Minnie married William Henry
Clark of Woodhull, N. Y., had a son, who died in childhood.

John Harper Campbell, born 1836, married 1858, Calehurna Bottom, had two
children:

Adelbert E. and Luella B. Adelbert married Carrie F. Sebring
of Tyrone, N.Y., had two sons: John Harry and William S. Campbell, both
deceased. Luella married Philip E. Young Jan. 11, 1888**** Corning,
had ****** children, Ethel, Roswell P., Clifford J., and Edward. Clifford
entered the Presbyterian ministry, resides at Baldwin, New York. Roswell
married Katherine Pratt of Elmira, is connected with Stearn’s Department
Store of Boston, Mass., has two sons and two daughters. One son, Phillip
is an officer in the army. Another son, John, is at home. Edward Young
is a director or music at Potsdam, New York.

Thomas Campbell died in infancy.

Joseph D. Campbell, born Dec 29, 1839, married in 1853, Dollie, daughter
of Charles and Phoebe Pierce Bottom of Nelson, had three children: Grace,
Myra, and Phoebe Ann. Grace born in 1865, married first, Alfred
D. Mowrey of Farmington, who died July 28, 1885, leaving her with one daughter
Pearl Mowery, who married Webster Wise, after whose death, she married
his brother, Frederick Wise. They have one son in the navy, Grace married
second, Attorney George Wallace Buck of Elmira in 1880, and had three children:
Joseph Wallace, Ruth Campbell, and Jerome Campbell Buck, died 1931/ Joseph
married Marjorie Eldredge and has three children: George Wallace, born
in 1922, now in the Army in the Southwest Pacific; Joseph Campbell, born
June 27, 1923, in Officers Candidate School, Fort Sill, Okla.; and Cornelia
Elizabeth Buck, born in 1927, attending Emma Willard School Troy, N.Y.
Ruth Campbell Buck, born in 1893, married William H. Mandeville, an attorney
of Elmira, and has one surviving son, David C. Mandeville, in the army.

Maria B. Campbell, born in 1842, married Feb. 1. 1862, James Loop, had
two daughters: Stella Ann and Bertha Loop. Stella married William
Hooker, had three children, Eva May, Bertha, and Treva. Eva born
in 1885, married Edward Hillis, lives in Johnson City, N. Y., has a son
John in the army, Bertha died in infancy.. Treva married John Hazlett,
son of Frank R., lives in Elmira Heights, has a son, John Jr., in the Army,
and a daughter Ann. Stella Loop Hooker married second, Nathan Wilbur.

Julia P. Campbell, born August 22, 1845, married Jan. 16, 1869, William
Edward Solf, had three children: Rena May (died in infancy), William Edward
Self, Jr., and Jennie Mary Self. William Edward Jr., born Sept.
14, 1871. married Euphema May Tokes of Hall’s Corners, N.Y., second Edith
Peck Loder of Brooklyn, N. U. Child: Doris Adele Self (Mrs. Philip Drake).
Jennie
Mary Self married James Alfred Cady, Aug. 23, 1891. She lives with
Mr. and Mrs. Harvey Merritt, near Nelson. She is one of the three living
grandchildren of Joseph and Ann Clinch Campbell.

CHARLES and ANN LUGG came from England, Charles Lugg was born in
1791 in Gloustershire at Bisley. His wife Mary Ann Chandler, whom he married
in 1818, came from the same shire. After one journey to America , he returned
and settled in 1833 on Sobres Hill, Farmington township, on a 100 acre
farm, four acres of which were cleared. He added 150 acres to this, and
completed clearing of 200 acres. He died on his farm in 1874, now owned
by Mark Stevens. His wife died in 1873, both members of the Presbyterian
church for ************* century. They had these children: (1) Sarah, (2)
Mary Ann, (3) Eliza, (4) Anthony, (5) Robert S., (6) Charles, (7) Caroline.

Sarah married first a Mr. Whitehead, second, David Hoyt, who joined the
church May 10, 1846; they lived and died in Nelson.

Mary Ann, born in England, with three others of the children, married
Elanson Hoyt, died in Farmington township. Ann joined the church in April,
1854.

Eliza married Louis Beiver, of hugenot extraction, was grandmother of Bertha
Closs (Mrs. William Davis) of Nelson.

Anthony Wayne, who with his wife joined the church in 1853, was born Aug.
25, 1825 at Bisley, England. He married Ann K., daughter of Nathaniel and
Lucy (Kelsey) Seely in 1851. He lived in Nelson till 1855, moved to Knoxville,
Pa., where he set up a large merchantile business. Children: Wayne M.
born in 1852, died in California; Elizabeth, died in infancy; Morgan,
died 12 years old; Charles H., born in 1860, married Minnie Wilson,
lived at Knoxville, had two children: Mildred Jean and George Wilson; Cora
J., born in 1862, married L. J. Johnson, lived at Jamestown, N.Y.:
Anthony
Walde, born 1866, a merchant at Knoxville.

Robert S., born Dec. 18, 1835 in Farmington, was the first of the children
of Charles and Ann Lugg born in America. He married Rebecca Bottom, born
1843, the daughter of Charles and Phoebe Bottom, lived in Farmington Township
till 1887 when they moved to a Nelson farm. Robert died in 1893; his wife
in 1898. they joined the church in 1882. Their children: Phoebe, Anna *************and
Mary V. Phoebe married Alton Evans, lived in Wellsboro, Pa. Anna
R. married Oscar Cole, lived in Hammond, Pa. Charles Byron,
born Feb. 2, 1864 in Farmington, lived in Nelson on the "island" farm,
married Feb. 6, 1889, Emma L., daughter of Aaron Otis ********* and Ann
(Alcott****Preston, He and his wife were members of *** Presbyterian Church.
Their son, Robert Preston Lugg, born Dec. 29, 1904, married Miss Ila Hess,
daughter of Melvin and Pearl (Short) Hess of Sabinsville, Pa. They have
three children: Charles Melvin (5), Bonlin ***** (2), and Robert Anthony
(1). Mary V. Lugg married Jesse L. Howe, had two sons, Charles R.
and Jerome B. Howe. Charles married Rena Lamb, has two sons Ellsworth and
Melvin, Both in the U.S. Army. Jerome has a daughter, Eloise Ruth, married
to *********** and living in Elmira.

Charles, son of Charles and Ann Lugg died young.

Caroline, married Enoch Blackwell, had one child, died in 1868, second
wife of Mr. Blackwell.

Elizabeth, died Apr. 19, 1834 in 11th year.

Robert Casbeer, son of William and Catherine Jay Casbeer, was born
Sept. 4, 1811, at Owego, N.Y. He married Nov. 11, 1839 at Beecher’s Island,
Pa., Susan House, born Nov. 11, 1817 in Connecticut, the daughter of Leonard
and Clarissa Brown House. Rev. E.D. Wells performed the ceremony. They
lived on a farm in Farmington Township, two miles from Osceola. He was
elected elder in 1852. He was dismissed by letter from the Beecher’s Island
Presbyterian Church in 1860 to the church at Osceola. His family burying
plot is in Pleasant Valley, Farmington Township. Robert died in 1891, his
wife in 1885. His wife was a poet. Upon the coming of her husband’s mother,
Catherine Jay Casbeer, to live in their home she wrote these verses, at
Farmington, Aug. 27, 1847.

Robert C. Baker, born Aug. 30, 1860, married Phoebe Buckley,
had two daughters, Frances and Anna. Frances married DeWitt Odle, lived
at Knoxville, had a son, Lieut. Basil Odle, U.S. Army, who married Helen
Ellison. Anna Baker married Cowden Brass, lived at Knoxville, had four
children: Robert, who is married and lives at Cowanesque; Paul, in the
Army, married in Florida, has a son; Phoebe, married to Wellington Colegrove,
has a daughter, Monica; William eight years of age.

LeRoy Baker, born Oct. 31, 1870, died at age two.

Raymond E. Baker, born Feb. 24, 1875, married Alice Babcock,
had son Buell W. Baker, who married Mary Hotchkiss, lives at Lawrenceville,
has three children: James D., in the Army Air Corps, born in Sept. 1924;
Alice May, born Dec. 4, 1930, and Buell Wesley Jr. , born June 1, 1934.

Victor Hugo Baker, born June 23, 1877, married Lida Mourey, lives
on a farm near Elkland, has three children: Aaron, a teacher in Port Republic,
N.J.; Fannie, married to Amasa Wilson, Port Republic, N.J.; and Alice,
who married Glenn Moore, lives in Elkland.

Lilia Baker, born Mar. 2, 1884, married Guy Seamans, now deceased,
has seven children, resides in Lawrenceville. Children, surnamed Seamans:
Ralph Douglas, Waldo, Robert, Blanche, Clerice, Guy W., Bessie, Ralph Douglas,
born June 11, 1906 is unmarried. Waldo, born Nov. 6, 1909, married Harriet
McCabe, is in the Navy. Robert, born Apr 10, 1912, married in 1935, Elizabeth
Thomas, has a daughter, Caroline, lives at Lawrenceville, where his wife
is a music teacher in the public school. Blanche, born July 10, 1915, married
Dorr Harvey who is now in the Army, Clerice, born Feb. 9, 1918, Married
Earl Altman, has a son, Alan, lives at Westfield. Guy W., born May 8, 1920,
is in the Army in Sardinia. Bessie, born April 15, 1923, married Guy Bailey,
who is in the Army.

Benjamin Casbeer, son of Robert, was born May 28, baptized Aug. 30, 1846,
married Pollie Preston, died at 28, leaving a daughter, Katie (Mrs. Hungerford).
When he was one year old his mother wrote an address to her son:

Here comes my little boy so bright

Smiling to view the morning light

One year this twenty-eight of May,

Your eyes first saw the light of day.

‘Tis eighteen hundred forty-seven,

Since our dear Lord came down from Heaven.

This proof mankind do freely give

That Jesus Christ on earth did live.

Your mother oft with tearful eye

Looks on her son, then looks on high.

And in the words of ernest prayer

Asks blessings sought for only there.

A voy’ger through a world of woe,

As all who enter soon will know.

Aou duty’s here, our interest there;

May be in life for heaven prepare.

Should God thy breath in wisdom spare.

That in life’s din you bear a share.

Oh! May He all your steps defend

And guide and guard you to the end.

I could not ask my son might know

Excess of life in joy, or woe,

But in an even path to tread,

And ask of God his daily bread.

Man’s life consisteth not below

In his abundant wealth and show,

For those who make this world their trust

Do drown their souls in sordid lust.

All Heaven below, and Heaven above,

Is formed of Charity and Love;

That being naught of Heaven can know,

Whose breast ne’er feels a generous glow.

Catherine Casbeer, born June 3, 1848, was baptized Jan. 30, 1850 by Rev.
F.B. Pratt. Her mother wrote in 1852 of her:

My Catherine dear, I’ll sing for thee

A song of thy sweet infancy

That thou mayst rend another day

When time those scenes has born away.

Thou wast the third of our little band

More prized by far than house or land,

And they little brother with joy and glee

His place by his mother resigned to thee.

Me thinks that time will never bring

Days happier than thine early spring.

Thy parents have sought with yearning care

To plant in they footstep s flowers rare.

To lure and guide thee in virtue’s way

That thy path may end in heavenly day.

But vain must be their wish and care

To shield thee from temptation’s snare.

Oh! Seek the Holy Spirit’s aid

To guide thy way through light and shade.

Sure then thy end shall triump be

Blest through time and eternity.

Catherine married John Smith of Farmington, had four children: Henry,
Lena, Susan, and Phoebe Smith. Henry married May *********** Rogers and
had three sons – Paul, Raymond, and Willard smith. Raymond is unmarried.
Lena Married Vann Howe (deceased) went as a missionary to South America,
is now living with her sisters Susan and Phoebe at Osceola. Her son John
Howe, married a Spanish-speaking woman in South America, has four or five
children, lives in Maryland. Susan Smith married Sylvester Lince (deceased).
Phoebe is a teacher.

Dan Casbeer, born Feb. 23, 1852, was baptized in the Beecher’s Island church
June 5, 1853. His mother wrote these lines for him:

May God direct your way, my son.

Daniel, my dark-eyed boy,

Craving for you this priceless boon

Brings rest, gives peace and joy

Full well your mother knows how vain

Her ceaseless anxious care

To guard the child she loves so well

From every ill or snare.

Yet there’s a power she can trust,

While striving to obey.

I’ll be a God to you and yours

Your prospects here I stay.

Fear God, my son, ‘tis wisdom’s way.

Fools hate instruction’s voice.

The gifts of earth all pass way;

Make God your early choice.

Daniel married Sarah Peters, had children: Benjamin, Fred, Grace, Charlie,
Benjamin married Mamie Cady, died at 28. leaving three children: Donald,
Robert and Dorothy. Robert had one daughter. Fred (deceased) married Lola
Taylor, lived in Elkland, had one son, Clinton, who is in the Army, and
married Catherine Elliott, has a daughter, Donna Jean. Grace married Charles
Preston, county health inspector, lives at Lawrenceville, Charlie Casbeer
died in childhood.

Emily Casbeer, born Nov. 12, 1854, was baptized in June, 1855. The following
was written for her:

The inspiration of the hour

While wandering in this woody bower

I would improve my gentle dove

To pen for you a line of love.

Sweet balmy day so fair to soo,

‘Tis May, the first of sixty-three.

November Twelfth of Fifty-four

You to my life gave one more joy.

Our path through life we may not know;

May heaven this mind on you bestow,

Where duty leads, with cheerful face

I’ll love to walk in such a place.

Emily married Jerome Spencer, had no children.

Flora Casbeer married Ben Adams, had a child, Agnes, who married Rex W.
Dimmick of Lawrenceville. They have three children: Betty, employed at
Painted Post, N.Y., Willard in the Army Air Corps, and Richard, in the
Navy.

Gratia Casbeer, born March 12, 1860, was remembered by her mother with
these lines:

Gratia, youngest of seven,

Dear, precious children all;

I’ve waited the inspiration

That from my pen might fall.

Some word for my last treasure

She might in memory hold

And think, "my mother loved me

When she was growing old."

That kind words truly spoken

Are weighty as the sand;

They calm the spirit broken,

Cast on life’s weary strand.

Ever this weapon carry;

‘Twill make a pleasant path.

Some ways are rough and Charry.

Calm with soft words the wrath.

Gratia Casbeer married Fred Gaige of Millerton (deceased), had five
children: Robert, living at Millerton; Albert, with a wife and two children;
Edna, married Leon A. Andrews, has a daughter; Emily, unmarried; Perry,
a railroad operator, married and has children.

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EDWARD MAPES and his wife Eliza had a son David and three other children
baptized in 1850. Eliza joined the church in December, 1852. James C. Mapes
was baptized Apt, 1, 1860, by Rev. E.D. Wells.

JOHN HAZLETT and SAMUEL HAZLETT were brothers. A family
history, prepared in 1901 by Lucy Dunham Hazlett, wife of John Hazlett,
Jr., is here quoted, with some additions.

About the year 1800, Joseph Campbell, Sire, and family sailed for America.
In company with them were Samuel and John Hazlett (brothers), --John, a
mere lad, Samuel, much older. Their father being dead, they left their
mother, one brother, an only sister, Mary and Archibold, in their native
country, Scotland. They came to seek homes in America, the land of the
free. A few years later, the mother, sister and brother came and settled
at Pittsburg. I can find no record of them only that they were both married,
Mary I believe to a man named Gibson.

A little romance occurred during the voyage. Sally, (born June 18, 1777)
daughter of Joseph Campbell, sire, and Samuel Hazlett were married by a
minister of the gospel who was aboard the vessel. He then engaged them
to work for him one year in the state of New Jersey. At the close of the
year they then went to Lancaster, Pa. and set up housekeeping, his brother
John going with them. They were not pleased with the country and after
a year decided to look for a more desirable home as their dreams of America
had not been fully realized so decided to penetrate more deeply into the
wilds of Pennsylvania.

John and Samuel purchased a tract of land of Daniel Strait where he
had resided two years and made a small improvement. In the spring of 1811
they started on their long and tedious journey through mud and rain for
Beecher’s Island, as it was then known. Somewhere near Blossburg, one horse
fell sick and died. Procuring an ox team they continued their journey.
During their stay there, snow fell one foot deep. On account of the roads
being heavy, some of the family were obliged to walk. Samuel driving the
team, his young wife willing to share the burdens with her husband, walked
the whole distance to their new home carrying her fifteen months old babe
in her arms. That babe is now 91 years old, Jane Hazlett Ellison Andrews,
living in New South Berlin, Chenango County, New York, well preserved in
mind and body.

When they arrived at the place they were to make their home, they found
no shelter but a hut constructed from logs very roughly put together. There
was a place between the logs so wide a cat could crawl through, and no
chimney, stones set up against the logs constituted their fireplace. They
were obliged to take up four bushels of ashes before a fire could be made.
The bark covering for a roof was all the protection they had from storms
and wild beasts that stormed around in fearful numbers, wolves, catamounts,
and bears. They were obliged to keep fires going all night to scare them
away. The pigs, sheep and stock of all kinds had to be kept in high pens
near the house, and sometimes when the wolves became very fierce the lambs
and pigs were taken into the house until they would leave to seek food
elsewhere. Their meat consisted of wild game and fish which was plentiful.

While the task was a heavy one, they went to work with willing hands
to make a more comfortable home. A new log house was built and a small
piece of ground cleared where the former occupant had felled the trees
and left them lying on the ground. There a garden was planted.

John, sire, decided that a helpmate was necessary. On the 11th
of April, 1811, he was married to Jane Campbell, also a daughter of Joseph
Campbell, sire. They all resided in one house.

The wife of Samuel Hazlett again showed her courage by going 11 miles
on foot to drive a cow that had been purchased for family use with only
marked trees for a guide. She saw only one window with a lighted glass
during her long journey.

There were no roads so the settlers followed the river and built their
homes near the bank. Those people first built at a point well-known by
lumberman as "Hazlett’s turn". In those days it was a dangerous point and
much dreaded by men who floated timber down the river which then was their
chief occupation.

Flax was raised, spun and woven into cloth for summer use, and woolen
for their winter use. Their open air exercise and warm clothing made them
strong and healthy. Sheets, pillow cases, tablecloths, and towel were all
made of linen. The women made cloth for cash or exchange for other goods.
Ithaca, New York being the nearest place where their cloth could be disposed
of ring about 25 cents a yard taking as many as 500 yards a trip. It required
four days to perform the journey, no transportation only by wagon with
poor roads.

John and Samuel were truly brothers, living and working together, sharing
each other’s joys and sorrows. There had been squatters there but these
people had come to stay. Then roads had been established they built barns
and houses, planted fruit of all kinds. A saw mill was built for which
they manufactured lumber that greatly aided in putting up more substantial
buildings. A few years before the death of John, sire, which occurred in
1848, he built the house where J. E. Hazlett, a grandson, now lives, and
one of the third generation to own and occupy the grand old landmark of
former years.

C. F. Merritt now owns and occupies the Samuel, Sire, farm. The buildings
have all been replaced with more modern and substantial structures. At
the present time the farm is owned by Clifford Merritt, Lawrenceville.

Samuel and John, sire, and their wives, are sleeping side by side in
the little family cemetery, all that is left of these sturdy pioneers.

While many of the settlers were struggling for a scanty existence they
had what will be remembered by some of the older people as the cold season.
Very little vegetation grew. So like the Canaanites of old they were obliged
to go into a foreign country to buy corn, the nearest place being Williamsport.
A man and a team were hired to make the journey. Each man who could raise
fifty cents more or less availed themselves of this opportunity. As the
man rode along through the broken country, like Annanias and Sophia, Satan
entered his heart. Being tempted to keep the filthy lucre, which he did.
These honest people waited long and anxiously but he never returned.

Another man was intrusted with the selling of lumber that had been manufactured
in their mill and floated down the river to Middletown, New York where
a ready market usually awaited them. He, too, left for parts unknown taking
the fruits of their hard labor with him which necessitated more privations
and hardships, and yet through all these trials there were prospered.

The women would often go three or four miles through the dense forest
with a bag of provision to visit the sick, many times finding them destitute
with no flour or food in the house. They were honest God-fearing people
adhering strictly to the commandment, "Remember the Sabbath day to keep
it holy". All work was done, as far as possible, in readiness for the Sabbath.
They were Scotch Presbyterians and strictly observed the doctrines of that
faith. John, sire, gave largely as well as others toward the Presbyterian
Church that stands on the ominence that overlooks our beautiful village
which is so unchanged that if our forefathers should return they would
immediately recognize it.

John, sire, gave the timber for the frame and his son, John, Jr., with
old father Jewell, (as he is familiarly known) felled the first tree for
the erection. He loaned the cooking stove to the carpenters, requiring
his own food to be prepared over an old fashioned fireplace.

The family of Samuel Hazlett, sire, and Sally Campbell consisted of
four children: Archibold, Mary, Jane and Sally. Archibold married Cynthia
Hammond of Elkland and removed to Crooked Creek, known as Middlebury Center.
To them were born eleven children: eight boys and three girls. The daughters
are Mars, Mary Carpenter, Mrs. Elsie Sweet of Niles Valley, and Mrs. Sally
Ritter of Wellsboro. Of the sons, four are deceased – Amma, John, Samuel,
and Marine; living are George of Elmira, James of Wellsboro, William of
Chicago, Illinois and David of Westfield.

Mary married Thomas Richardson. The fruits of their marriage were ten
children: seven sons and three daughters. John, Samuel, Thomas, and Frank.
Sleeping beside Mary, their mother, in the little cemetery James died at
Berrin Springs, Michigan. Charles, William, and Anna, all of Michigan.
Anna, wife of Charles Brooks, who will be remembered by many as teacher
in the old school building near the Presbyterian Church. He is now a successful
lawyer of Hart, Michigan.

Jane, of South Haven, Michigan, deceased. Sarah, wife of James Clow,
of Indiana County, Pennsylvania.

Jane Hazlett Andrews, as I have already mentioned was married twice.
Second wife of Richard Ellison, she also was second wife of Harvey Andrews.
Of the first marriage there were eight children, five daughters and three
sons; Hannah, wife of Robert Stewart; Sally, wife of Phileutes Crandall,
and mother of Truman Crandall; Adele, first wife of Edward Buckley, Jennie,
wife of James Glass, and Samuel of Eau Clare, Wis., all deceased, Mary,
of Chicago, and James Ellison of Maringo, Ill. Of the second marriage Anna,
wife of Wallace Sherman, and Frank and Willis Andrews.

Sally, now deceased, was the wife of the late Albert Fowler.

Of John Hazlett, sire, and Jane Campbell there were nine children:

Rachel married James Cook. Mrs. Mary Guernacy, beloved and respected
by all who knew her was their oldest daughter; Elizabeth of Osceola, and
Bertan occupying a part of the old farm; Myra of Elgin, Illinois; Ida of
Genoa, Illinois; Archibold of Iowa; and Eugene of California.

Mary, wife of the late John Flint, now in the eighty-seventh year of
her age, they emigrated to Illinois.

****** soon after their marriage. They, Too, endured the trials and
privations of a new country. They raised a large family which are living
in different parts of the far west, all prosperous and a great joy to their
aged mother.

Samuel, son of Joh***, deceased, is worthy of more than a passing notice
for his deeds of charity and exemplary Christian living. By his death,
the old Presbyterian Church to which he belonged, met with an irreparable
loss. His wife, Jane Knapp, still survives him, who has just celebrated
her eighty-fifth birthday. Their children are Mary, wife of Judd Seeley
of Osceola; Hope of Nelson; and John of Potter county, who had a son, Floyd.

John Hazlett, Jr. was born, lived, and died on the old farm that was
so dear to him. He often related the struggles and hardships of his mother
and father’s early life. His mother died in 1832, leaving several small
children. He married Lucy Dunham. Of this union there were six children:
Frank, who married Eula Taylor; and Fanny who married W. C. Monroe resides
in Elmira Heights; J. E. Hazlett, who married Eva Foster; and Nancy, wife
of William Popper of Presho; Herbert, at home; and Ella, deceased.

Eliza married William Merritt, Their children were Adele, wife of John
Shipman of Farmington; Mary, wife of E. J. Hall of Farmington; Josephine,
wife of Henry Taft, of Tuscarora; and Charles F. of Nelson.

Jane married Charles Hosley. Of this union were two children: Celia,
now deceased; and Jane of Illinois. After Mr. Hosley’s death, she married
William Knapp.

Myra, wife of Washington Richardson, four children: Edgar, Florence,
and Lyda of Genoa, Illinois, and George of Wisconsin.

Jane died in childhood, 1824.

Let us compare the past with the present. What we enjoy today, these
fine school grounds and churches dotted all up and down the beautiful valley,
comfortable homes and many are elegant, ***are monuments and silent reminders
that somebody had been here before and prepared the way for all those great
blessings.

We meet at reunions but how often there is a missing link. Someone has
gone to the Spirit Land, never to return.

To that great family of fathers, mothers, sisters, and brothers that
have gone on before let us not forget the prayers that have been offered
for you and me that we may be ready when the summons comes to meet them
in one everlasting reunion. May there be no missing links, unbroken families
to dwell forever in that beautiful home our Saviour has gone to prepare
for those who love and serve him"

Lucy Dunham Hazlett – August 22, 1901

Supplementing the facts contained in the above history of the Hazlett
family are the following accounts of more recent members of the family
descendents.

Charles Fowler Merritt son of William and Eliza Hazlett Merritt
was born in 1856, at Nelson, resided there, operating his father’s farm,
which he purchased. He married Ella Stoddard in 1881, who had been born
in Woodhull in 1859 and had children: (1) William B., born in 1884, married
Clara Eaton, had daughter Louise; (2) Ruby, married Loren H. Beers of Tuscarora,
N. Y., had son Merritt Beers; (3) Harvey, born Nov. 25, 1891, married Blanche
Cady, lives at Nelson, on farm east on the concrete highway; (4) Walter,
born in 1893, lives in Dexter, N.Y.; (5) Clifford, born May 3rd,
1901, married first, Esther Freeburg of Elkland, has a son, Clifford, Jr.,
born Feb. 19, 1927, and he married second, Mrs. Irene (Green) Brown, who
has two sons – Lawrence in the army and Elvin in the navy; (7) Gordon Merrit,
born June 21, 1905.

Samuel, third named of the sons of Archibold Hazlett, was born in Nelson
in 1830, died May 3, 1861. He married in 1852 Sarah, daughter of Walter
and Content Culver Bottom, had two sons: Charles Walter and Samuel
Clark Hazlett. Charles Walter, born in 1853, became a physician at
Whitneyville. Being an orphan at eight years of age, he found a home with
his Aunt Hannah Dorrance, Osceola. He married in 1881, Fanny Richards of
Nelson, had two sons; Raymond A., who died in 1908, and Charles Walter
Jr., born Oct. 31, 1900 now at Evansville, Wisconsin. Samuel Clark
Hazlett married Catherine Brennan, had three children: Mrs. Mayme H. Dewey,
324 Larchmont Rd, Elmira; Ferris Brennan Hazlett, Savinsville; and Mrs.
Sarah H. Baumgarten, 302 Guinnip Ave., Elmira.

Frank R. Hazlett, son of John, Jr., married Eula Taylor, had
children: Clinton, John, Margaret, Blaine, and Lucy. Clinton lives in Detroit.
John married Treva Loop, he lives in Elmira Heights, has a daughter, Ann
and a son John, Jr., in the army stationed in Alaska. Margaret married
Carl Rogue, has a daughter, Jean, in Cornell University, Blaine married
__________ Swartwood, lives at Elmira Heights, has a daughter, Dorothy.
Lucy is also married.

Nancy (Nan), born Nov. 1, 1859, married Aug. 13, 1889, William
Pepper, remembers the old Hazlett far, now owned by James West, about a
mile east of the Presbyterian Church at Nelson. She and her husband now
live at Presho, N.Y. They have a son, John, who married Ruth Anderson,
and has two children: Virginia, wife of Ervil Kittel, Addison, R.D. 3,
N.Y., and Marian, who married Dale Snyder, lives at Montoursville.

J. Edward married Eva Baxter Foster had no children.

Fannie married William Monroe, had children, Edward and Donald.
Edward married Rhea Mills, lives at the Heights as also does his mother.

Marine Hazlett, last named of the sons of Archibold, had two
sons, Sam, now of Nelson, and Charles of Elkland; and three daughters.
Mrs. Ida Watkins, Mrs. Albert Rowley of Nelson; and Mrs. Merle Mack Cook
of Painted Post are daughters of Sam. Sisters of Sam: Mrs. Marville Stevens
of Corning, and Mrs. Jay Baird of Chattanooga, mother of Lee Baird of Elkland,
who has two daughters, Lucile and Cora.

ENOCH BLACKWELL was born in Jersey Shore, Pa. in 1814. His father
died while Enoch was a child, and Mrs. Blackwell the wife of J. Campbell
of Beecher’s Island. Enoch Blackwell Married first in 1838. Miss Mary Knapp
of Wells, Pa. She died in 1865. Next year he married Miss Caroline Lugg,
by whom he had one child. His second wife having died in 1868, he married
Mrs. Caroline P. Putnam of Tioga, daughter of Dr. Simeon Power. A history
of Mr. and Mrs. Enoch Blackwell, and a view of heir residence farm buildings,
old homestead, store and flouring mill.

E. Charles Blackwell, son of Enoch, married Lena Preston (now Mrs. Morris
Smith) and had children: Byron Lockwood Blackwell, Watrous Preston Blackwell,
and Enoch Arden Blackwell. Lockwood died at the age of nineteen. Enoch
married Cora Rathbone, lives at Elkland, has a son, ********, in the navy.
A daughter, Caroline, is in training to be a nurse at Strong Memorial Hospital,
Rochester. Another daughter, Miriam, is at home. Preston Blackwell lives
on a farm, R.D.1, Elkland. He married Marjoy Shaeffer.

GEORGE WASHINGTON PHELPS married Sarah Lucetta Staples and had
one son, Volcut, who married Diantha C. Smith, daughter of Elijah and Marion
L. smith. Volvut and Diantha Phelps had three daughters: Mrs. William Humphrey,
who lived at Elkland, died about 1916; Mrs. Frank Seeley of Osceola, who
died about 1927, and Mrs. Leah, wife of Joseph Oakden, now living in Lawrenceville.